Design Pattern Support System: Help Making Decision in the Choice of Appropriate Pattern

AbstractSince the Gang of Four “GoF” has published their book on Design Patterns, this concept has been greatly expanded and becomes a necessity in software development. The Number of new discovered Design Patterns grows rapidly making it difficult for software developers and others to choose between these amounts of patterns for the appropriate one. Hence, a tool that helps making decision in choosing and selecting suitable patterns to solve a specific problem becomes imperative. In this paper we present a support system for making decision in the choice of patterns. We present a Data Management System and initiate a modeling language for Design Patterns aiming to automate querybased search for patterns with respect to their textual part of the description